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Mud city / Deborah Ellis.
Record details
- ISBN: 0888995423
- ISBN: 9780888995421
- Physical Description: 164 p. : maps ; 19 cm.
- Publisher: Toronto : Groundwood Books, c2003.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "The third book of the Breadwinner triology, by the author of The breadwinner and Parvana's journey." --On cover. |
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| Subject: | Readers for new literates. |
| Genre: | Readers. |
| Topic Heading: | Readers high intermediate. |
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- 1 of 2 copies available at Vancouver Community College.
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- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Broadway Library | High Intermediate (Text) | 33109009233842 | Readers | Not holdable | Lost | 2020-02-04 | ||
| Downtown Library | High Intermediate (Text) | 33109009233909 | Readers | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2003 November #2
Gr. 4-7. In the third book in the Breadwinner Trilogy, orphan Afghan refugee Shauzia leaves the rough Pakistan border camp and joins other homeless children on the streets of the city of Peshawar. Her dream, left from the time before the Taliban when she was still at school, is to reach the ocean and a place called France. Instead, disguised as a boy, she must beg and scrounge for food and find odd jobs. In the end, she returns to the refugee camp and to the tough camp leader, Mrs. Weera, whom Shauzia thought she hated. The story is strong on message, and in a final note, Ellis fills in the recent history about Afghanistan, the Taliban's restrictions on women, and the millions of new, desperate refugees. Middle-school readers will be caught up in the cause and in the elemental survival adventure, especially because Shauzia is no sweet waif; she's mean, insolent, and rebellious. Her struggle with the rough Mrs. Weera reveals that they are both strong and brave. Royalties from the book go to help homeless kids. ((Reviewed November 15, 2003)) Copyright 2003 Booklist Reviews - Horn Book Guide Reviews : Horn Book Guide Reviews 2004 Spring
Shauzia, a proud fourteen-year-old from Kabul living in a refugee camp in Pakistan, takes to the streets of Peshawar dressed as a boy in hopes of earning money to realize her dream of making a life for herself in France. As in the other books in her trilogy, Ellis doesn't neglect to offer strong characterizations while chronicling the devastating realities of war. Glos. Copyright 2004 Horn Book Guide Reviews. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2003 October #1
In the third book in the Breadwinner trilogy (The Breadwinner; Parvana's Journey), Mud City by Deborah Ellis, Afghani refugee 14-year-old Shauzia (Parvana's best friend) leaves the mud-walled refugee camp in Pakistan. Dressed like a boy, and accompanied by her dog Jasper, she struggles to survive and to reach her elusive dream-to travel to the sea and catch a ship to France. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. - School Library Journal Reviews : SLJ Reviews 2003 November
Gr 5-7-Stuck in the Widows' Compound of an Afghan refugee camp just across the border in Pakistan, Shauzia chafes at the endless small jobs Mrs. Weera assigns to her. She longs to take charge of her life, travel with her faithful dog Jasper, and make her way to the sea and ultimately to France. She leaves the camp dressed as a boy to try to earn money in Peshawar but there is little work and the meager amount she does earn is stolen by the police. Befriended by a Western family, she misunderstands their ways and is returned to the camp. There, her leg is broken in a riot caused by her efforts to get food for the widows and children. As she comes to recognize her own strengths, she reaches a point where she can lay aside her dream long enough to return to Afghanistan with Mrs. Weera to help her countrymen. Like The Breadwinner (2001) and Parvana's Journey (2002, both Groundwood), this novel conveys a distinctive sense of place, describing in discomfiting detail the sights and sounds of the impoverished refugee camp and the poorest sections of Peshawar. However, the book has the feel of a story begun in the middle. Shauzia's friend Parvana is just a name. Readers know nothing of their previous connection and Shauzia's own history is sketchy. She is smart and likable in her generosity, but her change of heart is sudden and comes as a surprise. Buy where the earlier titles have been popular.-Kathleen Isaacs, Edmund Burke School, Washington, DC Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. - Voice of Youth Advocates Reviews : VOYA Reviews 2004 April
As in the first two books in the Breadwinner trilogy, The Breadwinner (Groundwood, 2000/VOYA June 2001) and Parvana's Journey (2002/VOYA February 2003), this coming-of-age novel explores the survival challenges and moral choices that Afghan refugees present to themselves and the world. The story can easily stand alone. With meticulous attention to historical details, Ellis tells the compelling personal journey of Shauzia who, like her friend Parvana, masquerades as a boy to feed herself and her family. Leaving home to build an independent life, she arrives in a Pakistani displacement camp run by the dominating and socially conscious Mrs. Weera, who assigns her helping jobs. But Shauzia dreams about living in France and needs money. She opts for street life in Peshawar, Pakistan, with her dog as her companion. She lives in near starvation doing odd jobs, picking junk, and begging. Eventually she is arrested and robbed by the police. Americans who saw her begging rescue her. They welcome her into their home where she in turn admits beggars. The horrified family returns her to the refugee camp. She realizes her own people's dire needs in relation to the rest of the world's, begins to initiate needed services in the camp, and returns to Afghanistan with Mrs. Weera Young female readers will identify with the strong spirit that produces Shauzia's independence and her eventual resolve to help the devastated. Social studies teachers have an invaluable tool here for discussing world issues, including the inevitable conflict between haves and have-nots.-Lucy Schall 4Q 3P M J Copyright 2004 Voya Reviews.
